The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Emperor of Japan has been making a tour of the chief cities of his kingdom.
 The palace of the Mikado has been | lighted for some time by electricity, and the Edison Company has closed a contract to illuminate the city of Tokio.
 The merchants of China are re- ported to be well satisfied with last years business. Dealers in tea, silk and white manufacturers have all made money.-M O. Times Democrat.
 A tablet commemorating the fact that Qneen Victoria is of Huguenot descent, the Queen of George l. hay ing been the granddaughter of a French Protestant, has been placed in the Huguenot chapel Tn the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral.
 Lord Clifford, an ex-judge of the Court of Sessions, Edinburgh, who died recently. has bequeathed f80. 900 to found National Theology lectureships at the four Scottish universities. Edin- burgh gets f25. 900; Glasgow and Aber- deen, =e20, 900, and St Andrews, f15,- OO0.-M r Witness.
 Vaccination is to be enforced among all the workmen employed on the coming Paris Exhibition. Each man will be vaccinated as soon as en- gagged, and the government will not only pay for the necessary medical treatment, but will continue the man wages should his arm become bad and prevent him from working.
 -Viscount de Penaudiere, a journal istic Frenchman, claims to have papers in his possession in the hand writing of Napoleon III, showing that the emperor contemplated marrying the Prince Imperial to an Orleans princess, thus settling the French suc- cession in the same way that the En- glish concluded the War of the Roses. Boston Budget
 According to the Didrio Romano it is now precisely 2,641 years since Mir Romulus, C. E., first laid out the streets and lots of Rome. and the event is still celebrated in the Eternal City by the illumination of the Coliseum and the Forum, and by banquets at which the memory of the distinguished citizen is appropriately disposed of in silence.-M r. Sun.
 Mathematician, a little town in Saxony. is the place where musical in- struments are made, more especially violins, to which latter it owes the name of Saxon Cremona." Its manu- factures comprise nearly the whole field of instruments, such as guitars, flutes, clarionets Gin brass and German silver,) accordions, concertinas, zith- CTS, bass-viols, violincellos. .-Phiia- delphiG Press.
 Pope Leo's famous collection of laces has received an important addi- tion. Some wealthy Catholics at Venice have presented to him set of lace which they have caused to be executed at the late schools of Burano. The design is copied from the famous Rezzonico set, which was made for Clement AllL by the venetian nuns, and which now forms part of the treas ure of the House of Savoy and is oc- casionally worn by Queen Margaret- Chicago Herald
 Royal yachts cost high in England. The original cost of the Victoria and Albert was about f136 900, and she has since had spent on her over fS00,- GOO. The Osborne's original cost was about S106. 900, and she has had about 9112,O00 expended on her. The AL berta's original cost was f27,0O0, with a subsequent expenditure of f6S, 900. The Elfin's original cost was f6,O0O, the subsequent expenditure being over f40,0O0. Besides these interesting items, the annual pay of the officers and crews of the royal yachts is close upon $50, 0O0 N r. Sun.